Stephen Cooper

Stephen Cooper is a former D.C. public defender who worked as an assistant federal public defender in Alabama between 2012 and 2015. He has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers in the United States and overseas. He writes full-time and lives in Woodland Hills, California. Follow him on Twitter @SteveCooperEsq

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this broadside of the national anthem can stand along with the new pledge of allegiance i wrote in July, 2013
when the revelations of rampant spying, both domestic and foreign, by NSA and other agencies of our government came to light:

I pledge allegiance under duress to the Surveillance State of America, and to the security agencies that increasingly control our Nation, under fear, divided by economics, with liberty and justice for those who can afford to buy it.